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The Night Listener

(USA, 2006, 80 minutes)

A radio personality in a personal crisis is drawn into a long-distance friendship with an ailing teenager who admires him and has written a harrowing memoir of abuse, but begins to suspect that it all may be an elaborate hoax. Intriguing but slight meditation on love and identity, inspired by real events and thinly disguised as a mystery; subdued handling and performances keep it from being substantial enough.